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As much of the region falls quiet, construction crews are on job around the clock at the Pavilion, the new hospital on the campus of the HUP, to expedite the completion of 120 patient rooms by mid-April — 15 months ahead of the facility’s planned opening.

When I turned eighteen, I left New Jersey for a school called Deep Springs: a two-year, 26-student college situated on a working ranch in the California desert.

From the Miracle on Ice, to David and Goliath, to the 2004 Boston Red Sox, to Cinderella; underdog stories are engrained in our culture. My passion for the underdog runs deep — being a Miami sports fan, I don’t have much of a choice in the matter.

As the coronavirus quickly spreads, experts say that testing is critical. In response, Penn Medicine is joining health systems throughout the region and the U.S. in following the South Korean model and setting up drive-through testing sites.

To kick-off our Match Day blog post series, Sneha Narasimhan, a medical and PhD student at the Perelman School of Medicine and an aspiring neurologist, shares her thoughts as she prepares for the next step in her career.